Another demographic that is more likely to get addicted to gambling are adolescents. Adolescents are aged 12-18. The rise of online casinos made way to more kids getting access into gambling. It is said that male adolescents are the ones most recorded to have ended up addicted in gambling. Their addiction is usually associated with sports and mobile games betting.
Teenagers are being introduced to gambling through social media these days. Most casinos have started creating dummy Facebook pages and promoting their business by boosting fake big wins. I see such ads on Facebook every other day. Because people of this age play games on smartphones, they see gambling ads on their games as well. I have been trying Android games lately, which show some ads, and I figured out that most of them are gambling ads. It is very difficult not to be tempted by seeing such big wins and never to give it a try.
That is right because social media are the place for gambling advertisement besides the other advertisement. Maybe they don't think about gambling and only interest with the games without realize that is one of the gambling games. So they will start to play the games and becomes more often when they lose. Social media such as Facebook can easily to show the gambling advertisement and attract teenager to playing gambling. That needs awareness from teenagers not to try any gambling games type because that can makes them have gambling addiction especially if they don't have a good self control. It also needs parents responsibility to take care of their teenagers and always communicate or discuss with their teenagers about many things. That can help teenagers to identify which is a gambling games and online games.